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want to be. They may experiment with a number of attitudes, values, and personalities trying to find something that will fit and t...
the crises facing the individual at subsequent stages. Each individual must, basically, "pass eight great tests" and anticipation ...
various roles" (Meadows-Oliver, et al, 2007, p. 116). The stress involved in a teenage pregnancy and the associated pressure tha...
held back in their lessons when disabled students require extra attention from the instructor; and 3) Unreasonable expectations fr...
ignorant, uneducated attitudes. The social, political, economical, cultural and religious activities experienced in everyda...
"total years of life lost to disability (YLD), with depression accounting for 8% of the total YLD" (Mathers, et al., 2001; p. 1076...
As of 1999, more than 8 million children in America were living with their divorced single parent (Fagan and Rector, 2000). When t...
jungle (Berk, 2008). This chapter concentrates on the physical development of the child through this stage of growth. Berk not...
In general, if a parent asks for information concerning a counseling session, the counselor is required to provide a response. How...
at different rates, which means that "physical growth is "asynchronous" (Berk 296). B. The general growth curve indicates the cha...
their family unit - a time of stresses that dont need to be complicated about concerns such as career and college choices. Yet unf...
often takes more than 20 years for the effects of cigarette smoke to develop into a detectable malignancy" (p. PG). II. ADOLESCEN...
without some simple form of stress, the mind/body connection is not stimulated. However, this stress is completely divergent from...
operations stage when adolescents are going through their later personality formation and undertaking a great deal of the learning...
also occurred in numerous nations in the mid- to late-1950s through the 1970s (Spooner, 2002). The focus of this wave included: "e...
behaviors. Often, it is within the setting of a therapeutic community that such issues may be dealt with in the most effective man...
(Alliance for Excellent Education, 2006). * About eight percent of entering college freshmen must take at least one literacy remed...
Ward & Friedman (2006) report, "Our findings suggest that TV use, in multiple forms, appears to be linked with adolescent sexualit...
14 hours per week of television and spend an average of 6-7 hours per day viewing various media" (LeBlanc, 2003, p. 329. Furthermo...
experimental trial" (Craig, et al, 1996, p. 811). It may be that the researchers assumed that their readers would perceive that th...
between cases at the time of diagnosis (Newmark and Anhalt, 2007). Type 1 diabetes is typically due to a "lack of insulin producti...
that is, promote and nurture this factor. While this examination will touch on the latter meaning, this emphasis is on the former,...
researchers maintained that obesity is on the rise in adolescent populations and may be the product of social constructs. There ...
questionable impact over adolescent personality, values and manner. In gathering this information, several methods were utilized ...
focuses on psychosocial development, which is reflected in his Eight Stages of Human Development. The stages, in order, are: infan...
focus on efficiency in need rather than having to deal with competition between different users for but allocations and the subjec...
It has never been out of print since its publication and has been translated into "French, German and Dutch" (Taillon 16). Written...
In eighteen pages Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is examined in an overview of the diagnosis as described in DSM IV with a literatu...
In our parents time it may have been: the brains, the geeks and the jocks. In a 1999 report entitled, "Girls, media, and the nego...
In five pages a research design detailed in an article discussing adolescent substance abuse and comorbidity is critiqued. Four s...